However even the wikipedia gets it a little conceptually incorrect to quote

"...electrons travel in circular orbits around the nucleus..."

Electrons do NOT travel - they exist in energy states around the nucleus.If they travelled they would radiate and loose energy, which they don't unless, in electron state transitions.Upon publishing in 1911 his model ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rutherford_model ),realized his error in describing it that way - but 102 years later it is still mis-described as such as does this Ars article.

Yes, as wrong, incomplete, and preliminary as Newton's theory of gravitation, or actually every other single scientific theory ever. In other words, not wrong, period. All theories so far are incomplete, all theories so far are preliminary. So why even attempt to pin "wrong" on such a seminal theory, that was as "correct" as any other scientific theory?

In his book, "The Strange Story of the Quantum," Banesh Hoffmann followed the chapter on "The Atom of Niels Bohr" with "The Atom of Bohr Kneels." Still one of my favorite puns on his name. By the way, Linda Young works at Argonne National Lab, though she was talking about experiments at SLAC.

Feynman was a bongo player. He once remarked that he found it odd that people were always mentioning that he was a physicist who played bongos, but no one ever said he was a bongo player who did particle physics.

Niels Bohr also had a nice house next to Carlsberg, given to him by the Carlsberg foundation (a foundation that used to own a majority of Carlsberg and has as their goal to promote science and art). The house also came with a lifetime of free beer directly from the brewery. Whether or not that is related, it is interesting to note that many of the contemporary top physicists ended up moving to Copenhagen to study under Niels Bohr or hang out around his house.

Niels Bohr also had a nice house next to Carlsberg, given to him by the Carlsberg foundation (a foundation that used to own a majority of Carlsberg and has as their goal to promote science and art). The house also came with a lifetime of free beer directly from the brewery. Whether or not that is related, it is interesting to note that many of the contemporary top physicists ended up moving to Copenhagen to study under Niels Bohr or hang out around his house.

I don't have time to research it now, but I wonder if that has any connection with the story of him fleeing the germans and grabbing a bottle of beer instead of the bottle of heavy water contained in a beer container in his home.

In all the talk about how "wrong" it is, people don't realise that it reveals a very deep understanding of quantum phenomena. Bohr started with circular orbits because that is how we always work in physics, we start with the simplest and work our way through. The important thing is not that there are orbits or their shape, but that angular momentum is quantised. That is what led to the Bohr-Sommerfeld model let you work in orbits of arbitrary shapes, but more than that, it presented things in a neat way that anyone familiar with classical mechanics would recognise (they look like the action-angle coordinates you get when you work the Hamilton-Jacobi equations for those interested). When you see this you understand the path followed in the development on the foundations of quantum mechanics.

Yes, as wrong, incomplete, and preliminary as Newton's theory of gravitation, or actually every other single scientific theory ever. In other words, not wrong, period. All theories so far are incomplete, all theories so far are preliminary. So why even attempt to pin "wrong" on such a seminal theory, that was as "correct" as any other scientific theory?

Feynman was a bongo player. He once remarked that he found it odd that people were always mentioning that he was a physicist who played bongos, but no one ever said he was a bongo player who did particle physics.

Interesting, was not aware of that. I mistakenly assumed that the OP was confusing him with someone else that had the same surname. Thanks!